Malta Aquarist Society

   If you are going to keep corals I do not recommend having an external canister filter as you will end up with a nitrate factory in no time and cleaning the canister will result in removing essential bacteria needed for your marine tank, use a sump instead with live rock you can also include a compartment where you can put in floss or charcoal if needed, these need to be removed after 2 weeks do not leave them more than that. Whatever you do never remove the live rock from the sump as you could easily crash your aquarium.

here are some pics....

Well Done Valhmor.

Apart from the 2 Clown Fish (Amphiprion ocellaris), that can easily be seen, what are the other Live tankmates?.

Yes I have 2 Clown, 3 blue hermit crabs, 1 red hermit crab and 1 camel shrimp I am trying to take a pic of it but alllways hiding when camra is on hehe so can't get it right know....

 Well done Vahlmor. Clownfish are my preferred fish in the marine aquarium. Their colours are vibrant. How long did you leave the system to settle, before putting any fish?

3 months for shure....

Total cost of this aquarium is abt 250 Euros for this small tank

 Aquarium, Tricle filter, media, Skimmer, pump, sand, live rock, salt,tube worms, crabs, test kit, liqued bacteria, fish...

...imagine the next one hehe but its wort when you'll see those lovly fish

Valhmor:

Yes I have 2 Clown, 3 blue hermit crabs, 1 red hermit crab and 1 camel shrimp I am trying to take a pic of it but alllways hiding when camra is on hehe so can't get it right know....

 

Nice mixture & hope to see more pictures soon.....

 How is your setup doing? Encountered any problems? Hope not!

hi

 Kollox sew.....sa issa! il lum mortnaqta il hgieg ax ha narma is sump....al madwar 150L setup

You're going to add another marine setup?.

Hope you'll add a few more pictures of the creatures you've already have.

yes this time maybe a reef........

I am seting up a 200L tank in total but 150L is the total volume of water since I will have the sump at the back..

I am using natural filtarion that consits of love send/rock and maybe some alge..so I am trying to keep corals

How are your clowns doing?

How are you doing with your second project Valhmor?

I am going to build a 7 feet aquarium in my living room but I'm still undecided regards the setup. My two options are a reef one or a planted one with Discus. For both I need a chiller for the Summer. Corals and plants need cool water.

hi jan

I had lost a clown, It had been behind the sump becase it was not sealed and I found thtas it a prob hehe...

 I had baught a 2 spot damsel they are doing quite weel a bit fight for some time and they came frinds after some time hehe... Camel Shrimp is Still oki but you only can see him when feeding time is and even the hermits they are doing well.

 I was buzy in this last week, I had stared to do my next project. I had worked hard so I will end up with good results in a short time becase till yerterday I had to go for liverock so I had saw 12/1am in these last 3 days but it;'s ready, filled with water and cyclin. The only thing I just have to do is that I have to set up pumps in there place and install the skimmer...

I have some photos to shar with you, can someone give me a place where can I upload at a fast rate....I normaly upload with freewebs but they seem that have some problems and slow uploading rate.

This is the last photo I have taken will update soon with more pics of sump etc...

 From where did you collect those live rock? You don't have sand?

 I use photobucket to upload my photos.
 

I am going to add some but The send I want, pupe wight is Out of stock so I will add up later it does not effect. I did the same thing in the small aquaqurium.

 I had baught the live rock and beleve me that it the most expensive thing...